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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Science, Futurism, Sci Fi, Future, Scifi, Technology, Space, Engineering

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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We often wonder how we might first meet extraterrestrials, picturing flying saucers and UFOs landing and aliens emerging asking to be taken to our leader - but joining the galactic community might be a very strange experience. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/11LPuzid8jA Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Alien Civilizations: Welcome to the Galactic Community! Episode 215, Season 5 E49 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Jerry Guern Keith Blockus Matthew Campbell Graphics by: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Mihail Yordanov Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music: Martin Rezny, "Lifelight" https://soundcloud.com/martin-re-n-1 Reign Pagaran, "Columbia's Sails" Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and..." https://www.discogs.com/artist/625697-Taras-Harkavyi Aerium, "Deiljocht", "Windmill Forests", "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:19.9	This video is sponsored by CuriosityStream.
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0:27.9	using the link in the description.
0:30.9	In the grim darkness of the far future,
0:33.7	there will be only bureaucracy.
0:50.0	Music There will be only bureaucracy. A few years back we took a look at Alien First Contact Scenarios, and we came up with
0:54.9	nine scenarios those might fall into, though fundamentally you've got three basic forms
0:59.8	that can take.
1:01.2	They come to us, we come to them, or we bump into each other out there.
1:06.1	Today we'll be focused on that first one, and specifically when they're trying to contact
1:10.3	us as opposed to us simply to contact us, as opposed
1:11.4	to us simply noticing they exist, as would be the case with picking up some signal not
1:16.0	intended for us or some trace of their existence.
1:19.7	This doesn't mean they're necessarily landing in full view of the public with some saucer
1:23.5	that discourages little green men, indeed as we'll see today, that's not a very likely
1:28.2	first contact scenario, and if they did land, we'd likely expect the ship to disgorge something
1:33.8	that looked quite human, as in many cases that would be the most logical thing to do.
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